Examine the importance of brand identity and especially the application of sensory principles to create a stronger brand, including the practical application of symbolism and storytelling in customer experience.

Presenting the reader with practical applications for brand enhancement, this book helps to understand the implement strategies to strengthen brands. It offers a framework for brand management, and provides a flowchart for progressing the brand building process from strategy through tactics to implementation.

An expert presents in a compact form the 20 essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands.

Praise and Reviews "the best book on brands yet"- Design Magazine"New exciting ideas and perspectives on brand building are offered that have been absent from our literature."- Philip Kotler, S C Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management"Managing a brand without reading this book is like driving a car without your license."- Haesun Lee, Senior Vice President of Marketing, AMOREPACIFIC Co, Korea"Kapferer's hierarchy of brands is an extrordinary insight"- Sam Hill and Chris Lederer, authors of The Infinite Asset, Harvard Business School Press"One of the definitive resources on branding for marketing professionals worldwide."- Vikas Kumar, The Economic Times, India"One of the best books on brand management. Kapferer is thought provoking and always able to create new insights on various brand related topics."- Rik Riezebos, CEO Brand Capital and director of EURIB / European Institute for Brand ManagementThe first two editions of Strategic Brand Management were published to great critical acclaim. The New Strategic Brand Management has been rewritten and fully revised to bring readers absolutely up-to-date with the dramatic changes that have taken place in brand management worldwide.Dealing with the concept and practice of brand management in its totality, it is packed with fresh examples and case studies of brands from all over the world, paying particular attention to global brands. It also looks at the hype surrounding branding and stresses the role of sound business decisions when building a brand. There are several new chapters, including:brand and business buildingthe challenge of growth in mature marketsmanaging retail brands.Plus completely new sections on innovation and its role in growing and reinventing brands, and corporate branding.The New Strategic Brand Management will provide all marketing and brand managers with a thorough understanding of the new rules of brand management and how to put them into practice.

Most of us have an intuitive sense of superior branding. We prefer to purchase brands we find distinctive—that deliver on some important, relevant dimension better than other brands. These brands have typically achieved positional advantage. Yet few professionals have had the formal training that goes beyond marketing theory to bridge the “theory-doing gap”—understanding the specific techniques and strategies that can be used to create brands that attain positional advantage in the marketplace. Positioning for Advantage is a comprehensive how-to guide for creating, building, and executing effective brand strategies. Kimberly A. Whitler identifies essential marketing strategy techniques and moves through the major stages of positioning a brand to achieve in-market advantage. Introducing seven tools—from strategic positioning concepts to strategy mapping to influencer maps—Whitler provides templates, frameworks, and step-by-step processes to build and manage growth brands that achieve positional advantage. This book presents real-world scenarios, helping readers activate tools to increase skill in creating brands that achieve positional advantage. Brimming with insights for students and professionals alike, Positioning for Advantage helps aspiring C-level leaders understand not only what superior branding looks like but also how to make it come to life.

Adopted internationally by business schools, MBA programmes and marketing practitioners alike, The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for senior strategists, positioning professionals and postgraduate students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy but also has become synonymous with the topic itself. The new edition builds on this impressive reputation and keeps the book at the forefront of strategic brand thinking. Revealing and explaining the latest techniques used by companies worldwide, author Jean-Noël Kapferer covers all the leading issues faced by the brand strategist today, supported by an array of international case studies. With both gravitas and intelligent insight, the book reveals new thinking on a wealth of topics including: brand architecture and diversity strategies; market adaptation approaches; positioning in the private label and store brand environment, and much, much more. Whether you work for an international company seeking to leverage maximum financial value for your brand, or whether you are looking for practical guidance on brand management itself, Kapferer's market-leading book is the one you should be reading to develop the most robust and watertight approach for your company.

Suitable for all business students studying strategy and marketing courses in the UK and in Europe, this text also looks at important issues such as the financial aspects of marketing.